Yes I have verified that the plug in is active and the manual authentication method has the box check. The email goes out to the administrator almost immediately but I created student accounts with two other personal email addresses and I didn't receive anything to either of them. Does the plug in look for the email address in a field other than the "email"?

Yes sir, hat's the frustrating part. The plug in is well laid out and easy to set up and can't figure out for the life of me why only half is working. I've been looking at every setting I can think of in our email system that might be causing a conflict, but I can't see anything. IS there anything in the site admin you can think of that I could take a look at?

If there is an issue sending email that might show up in your server logs. But there is no way to see that in Moodle logs. You could try some other email addresses too but other than that I don't know whats going on.

Since I wanted to send a welcome message when to a new user, I installed this plugin. The plug in installed successfully, and very easily. However on adding a user, the mail was neither sent out to the user nor to the moderator.

I have confirmed the following:
The 'enable user message' is ticked
Auth Plugins 'manual' and 'email' are ticked
Enable moderator messages is ticked
To confirm the outgoing mail system is working I sent out an automatic mail for new user using 'auto password generation' option. In this case the standard mail was sent out to the new user with a system generated notification mail. The mail was sent by the system and recd. by user successfully. However the welcome mail from this plugin was neither sent out to user nor to the moderator.
Please advise what I may doing wrong.

Hi Bas, I am still running 2.6. When I install this plugin, there is a blank page after the user signup page.
This is the error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function local_welcome\profile_get_custom_fields() in /home1/ecourse/public_html/aladylikeyou/programs/local/welcome/classes/message.php on line 64
Any ideas as to what I have done wrong?
Cheers,
Lynda

I'm going to repeat my "wishlist" item from October, 2014: Filter who the message goes to. I'm probably asking WAY too much, but I'd like to send it only to teachers at our school (xxx@ourschool.com) and not students (xxx@student.outschool.com) OR send different messages to the two groups.